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I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

It was ingrained in me to be gracious.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.